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I was more concerned about what Rex would change on our defensive scheme. As it turned out, my concerns were valid. With that said, I feel more optimistic this year.

He's on the Wall, so leave him there, but no ceremonies or further acknowledgements are warranted.

So you're saying we won the pre-offseason?

Yeah I know - that's why I said it shouldn't draw a flag. There's two reasons it probably would anyway: 1) Golden Boy; 2) in real time it looked like he went for the head - it was only in slo-mo that I saw what really happened. (Another reason to allow challenges on penalties.)

Clements over Gilmore. Nate was great; Gilmore is very good but hasn't lived up to his draft status, in my opinion. And Nate's hit on Brady would not (or at least should not) draw a flag even today. He led with his shoulder and hit Brady in the chest. His shoulder slid up, and that's what knocked the helmet off. And Brady was a runner at that point, not defenseless.

The BBMB required a certain number of posts before someone could start a thread. I notice that TBD doesn't have that requirement, but we can't add a signature until we've hit 100 posts. That seems odd. Not that I care about the sig, but it seems like you could reduce the bad threads just by requiring a minimum number of posts. For the record, I haven't created a thread here.

James Starks 2010 version - heck yeah. James Starks today - nah. There's a reason GB let him walk - it's because his running days are behind him.

Any modern offense would demolish those defenses, just like any modern defense would shut down those offenses. That's like saying an F-16 would totally destroy the Red Baron in WWI.

Does it count against the salary cap? Does it cost us any compensatory draft picks? No? Then why does anyone have a problem with it? They're obviously making an effort to improve the team, otherwise they wouldn't have fired Rex. So let them do whatever PR they think is necessary. It's a business as well as a game - they're playing both angles.

When I lived in WNY, Rich Stadium hosted quite a few summer concerts.

"... and BOOM! That's where the flag comes out!."

Hate (most-to-least): Pats* Dolphins Jets Cowboys Steelers Love: Bills Like: Packers Soft spot for: Browns Pretty much indifferent to everyone else.

Rex tried to defend against that clause but it got through anyway.

Yeah, but could your 3rd grade cousin have built that lead in the first place?

At least he knows the way to the stadium.

He'll be like John Madden ... without the intelligence.

Chip, is that you?

Good - our O-line needs depth, which is exactly why I would NOT cut Wood.

I can do my own taxes, but that doesn't make me an expert in corporate tax law. Try walking into a billion dollar corporation and telling them to hire you as their comptroller, using the fact that you do your own taxes as evidence of your ability to do the job.

If by "same result" you mean not winning the Super Bowl, then I agree. But it's safe to say that if either of us were running the team, they'd be in worse shape than they are now. For one thing, I doubt that either of us keeps an objective list of every single personnel decision and how we felt about it, but we tend to remember the ones where we were right. So the idea that we'd have done better is simple confirmation bias. Second, nobody on this board knows exactly what a GM does. Yeah, he's in charge of personnel, but we don't know all the intricacies of the business, and we don't have access to the same information that he has. Like I said before, until you've done the job, you have no idea how difficult it is, and therefore you have no idea how well you'd perform it.

You misspelled "error."

Everything seems easy to the non-expert, but when someone works in a field at a professional level, they see that it's far more complicated than they imagined before. In short, until you know more about something, you don't realize how little you actually know about it.

The Fridge was a DT. They occasionally used him as a blocking FB, and even a short yardage runner, in goal line situations.

The article originally said "upper northwest." He must have edited it after someone gave him a geography lesson.

Maybe he's from NYC. To them, NY State consists of two regions: the city and the northwest.